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Hour 2 - A Tiger to Talk About · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Mama, there goes that man. It's our number two. Our
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  Speaker 1: two is all ready for you. On the Ben Malor Show,
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  Speaker 1: we sit up all night for the fresh pod. We
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  Speaker 1: start out in the great state of Michigan. And what
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  Speaker 1: is the likely outcome of the trek Schooble trade? Chetter
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  Speaker 1: Regarding the Tigers, Ace Pitcher and the Podreys are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: planning the trade closer Mason Miller, while also adding players
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  Speaker 1: for the stretch run. What is your take on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here? We'll talk about that and Dodgers slash
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  Speaker 1: Lakers owner Mark Walter and his business dealings. He runs
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  Speaker 1: the group that owns the Dodgers and the Lakers, though
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  Speaker 1: his operation being investigated multiple reports by the Feds. What
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  Speaker 1: do you make of this? We'll talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right now here we go, Gerona Mo it's our number two.
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  Speaker 2: A Tiger to talk about? What moving on? What are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So we're back in the action yet again here this hour,
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  Speaker 1: and we're inching closer, less than two weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: a point of demarcation in the Major League Baseball season.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from Detroit, where the man covered
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  Speaker 1: in coodies forever tarnished a dirty rotten sheet who's now
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  Speaker 1: and been the manager for a couple of years there
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, AJ forever sullied his time there with the
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  Speaker 1: cheating as one, one thousand and two, one thousand holes,
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  Speaker 1: so he implied. The manager there in Detroit implied that
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers are focused on making a late playoff push.
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  Speaker 2: Shocking a team's going to try to make a late
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  Speaker 2: push for the playoffs. But the story here is, barring
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  Speaker 2: a major collapse, the plan is the Tigers are going
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  Speaker 2: to be a contender. They are not going to trade
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  Speaker 2: Ace Trek School before the trade deadline, which is coming
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  Speaker 2: up here on August third. There's said to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of interest to heavy hitters.
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  Speaker 1: The big boys are interested around Baseball Detroit's front office, supposedly,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe the scuttle. But they believe they're true believers.
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  Speaker 1: The team can keep on winning here in the month
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  Speaker 1: of July, as we are late in the month, and
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  Speaker 1: that will justify them holding on to Trek Scooble.
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  Speaker 2: They have played better. They're not really in.
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  Speaker 1: The postseason race. It's a fake situation. So Schooble the
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  Speaker 1: most coveted starting pitcher who's going to get the next
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  Speaker 1: mega mega, mega mega mega contract in baseball if he
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  Speaker 1: does end up on the market, and it does appear
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  Speaker 1: that is going to happen there, the chatter is the
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  Speaker 1: asking price is enormous, enormous, monumental as Detroit is perplexed
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  Speaker 1: on what to do. So as of today, when we
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about today's show. As of today, if
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers are somewhat in the mix to make the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs playoffs, if they're in the hunt, the entire Schooble
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  Speaker 1: is expected. If you believe the reporting, he will remain
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit even though he is the most coveted asset
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  Speaker 1: available on the market. Let us discuss the question what
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  Speaker 1: is the likely outcome? Give me the likely outcome from
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  Speaker 1: ace pitcher, trek schouble and the trade chatter coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Motown. So my observations, I've got movie poster, rodeo,
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  Speaker 1: clowns and cores light and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to play Connect three,
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  Speaker 1: not Connect four.
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  Speaker 2: Connect three? Understand, all right? Very good? So we always
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  Speaker 2: start with number one, one one, number one, number one.
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  Speaker 1: Now, looking into my crystal ball, which has never let
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  Speaker 1: me down, the Tigers as we speak are not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five, Six games
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred. Now, I'm from the old country. When
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  Speaker 1: you're six games under five hundred, after one hundred games.
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  Speaker 1: You are not a contender. Now I realize the American
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  Speaker 1: League is dog food, bad to the moone, bad, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad to the bone, the American League.
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  Speaker 2: And there is gridlock. There is gridlock. There's no great team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed with the Yankees of the Rays or
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  Speaker 1: whoever you think is the top team. We're sixty sixty
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  Speaker 1: two percent give or take through the season. And the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers I wrote down on their report card. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: give them an F. I gave them an FC, which
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  Speaker 1: does not mean football club. That means faux contender. The
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  Speaker 1: Tigers are a classic faux contender. And that's the first
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  Speaker 1: left hook. Okay, that's a left hook. The Tigers are
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  Speaker 1: a full contender. Then comes the knockout, body blow, body blow,
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  Speaker 1: the will to beast in the room, the will the
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  Speaker 1: beast in the room. Motown has no interest in paying
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  Speaker 1: the full amount for Schoolbl, and by all accounts, there
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  Speaker 1: is no hometown discount on the horizon, so there's none
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  Speaker 1: of that. And this is an awkward situation. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why. If the owners win the labor negotiation,
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  Speaker 1: Schoolbl's going to get capped on how much he can make.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to get hosed. So do you sign for
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  Speaker 1: less than you want if you're Terry Schooble right now,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that that will be grandfathered in, that the Mega
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  Speaker 1: contract will be grandfathered in, and that they will not
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  Speaker 1: be giving out those contracts anymore if they do end
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  Speaker 1: up winning the ownership, or do you gamble that the
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  Speaker 1: owners will not win, there will be no salary limit.
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  Speaker 1: There will be no salary cap in baseball, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be fine. So you may the call if you're schoobl Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers don't seem all that interested.
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  Speaker 2: He's pushing thirty. It's almost thirty. He's hitting free agency
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  Speaker 2: this winter, if there is free agency this winter. His arm,
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  Speaker 2: Schoobel's arm is held together at times with little more
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  Speaker 2: than Elmer's glue and also some solid scotch tape. So
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  Speaker 2: they've got the Elmer's glue, the scotch tape, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they found some fabric from one of those ghosts
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  Speaker 2: of Joanne fabric stores that used to be around before
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  Speaker 2: they went all belly up. So if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the movie poster, look at the movie poster.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, Detroit is staring at a remake of planes
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  Speaker 1: trains and automobiles for Schooble. Yeah, he's not just on
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  Speaker 1: the trade blick. I don't believe the hype that he's
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  Speaker 1: not on the trade block. He's on the trade block.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not only on the trading block, he's actually
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  Speaker 1: on the boarding ramp. He's the portal and he's halfway
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  Speaker 1: halfway there onto the plane. He's got his carry on
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  Speaker 1: bag with him in a good bye muffin. What the
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  Speaker 1: hell is a good bye muffin? I guess the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: guy gave him a goodbye muffin in my head the
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  Speaker 1: cartoon bubble in my head. So he's got that going
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  Speaker 1: for him there. Good luck on that now Detroit, the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit baseball team. And this is the thing, the long
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  Speaker 1: term fallout from Otani. You might remember, the Angels had
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  Speaker 1: show Haotani for several years. They had the option of
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  Speaker 1: trading Otani or not trade him. They were also a
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  Speaker 1: faux contender the Halos. Ardi Morino though, said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trading Otani. I believe in this team and like every
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  Speaker 1: other thing that Arti Marino believes in.
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  Speaker 2: They broke they broke his heart. They broke his heart.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't work out, and you look back and said it
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  Speaker 1: was always great. Hindsight being what it is, and you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the Angels. The player, one of the players tamp Bay
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  Speaker 1: was offering when Otani was heading towards free agency was
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  Speaker 1: Junior Camonero, who has been among the top two or
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  Speaker 1: three power hitters in baseball this year for Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, would he have.
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  Speaker 1: Been that good with the Angels? Hell no, because nobody's
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  Speaker 1: that good with the Angels. That doesn't happen, like, come
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  Speaker 1: on now, So the arguments you got if you're the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers and you're not a real contender, which they're not, right,
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  Speaker 1: they're a fake contender.
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  Speaker 2: Now the counter argument is, well, the American.
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  Speaker 1: League blows, there's gonna be a mediocre team that gets
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  Speaker 1: in there to the World Series. And if a couple
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  Speaker 1: of snap crackle pops happened to the Dodgers, you can
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  Speaker 1: beat them in the playoffs. Now, Toronto almost beat them
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  Speaker 1: last year, went to a Game seven. And so the
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  Speaker 1: move is you either trade him now and get a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of scratcher tickets of bonanza scratcher tickets, or you
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  Speaker 1: hold on to them and you risk the chance of
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  Speaker 1: school becoming poltergeist and haunting you from Los Angeles or
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  Speaker 1: New York or Chicago or Boss or wherever.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So.
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  Speaker 1: He's Gonzo, not the guy that works here, the new
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  Speaker 1: producer Gonzo. But he's Gonzo all right. Now Page two
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  Speaker 1: to San Diego, where the fish tacos are fresh and
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  Speaker 1: the baseball's mediocre.
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  Speaker 2: So we're now hearing more noise that.
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  Speaker 1: The Podres are going to do what we thought they
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  Speaker 1: were going to do. In a previous episode of the show,
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  Speaker 1: the Padres are preparing to excommunicate Mason Miller before the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Mallard, that's the top guy. They can't
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  Speaker 2: get rid of him. Want to bet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, He's been absolute dominant for the San Diego Padres
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  Speaker 1: this year. And the chatter is that the Padres are
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  Speaker 1: going to attempt to do something that is almost impossible
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  Speaker 1: to do. Rival MLB insiders and executives all claiming that
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  Speaker 1: the Pod squad are going to attempt an unconventional approach
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  Speaker 1: by buying at the deadline and selling at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to add players and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of players at the upcoming trade deadline. So
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel, the Padres are preparing
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  Speaker 1: to trade closer Mason Miller while also adding other players
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  Speaker 1: for the stretch run.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe the reporting, that's where it is.
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  Speaker 1: What is your take on what's going on in America's
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  Speaker 1: finest city. If you don't believe me, it says it
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  Speaker 1: on the police cars. I used to work there, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the answer is disfunction. Junction.
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  Speaker 1: What's your malfunction. That's where we are here. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now this has been proven.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot sail north and south at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: You got to pick a lane. You can't go north
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  Speaker 1: and south at the same time. And you certainly cannot
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  Speaker 1: ride two horses with one saddle unless you are a
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  Speaker 1: rodeo clown. So if you've got a bunch of rodeo clowns, okay,
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  Speaker 1: then you can. You can ride two horses at once
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  Speaker 1: one saddle. They don't have that. And the idea that
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  Speaker 1: you're buying if you're the padres for the stretch run
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  Speaker 1: here while also unloading Mason Miller is like saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going on a diet. I want to lose a
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  Speaker 1: couple of pounds. Okay, good, go on your diet. No problem. Wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm just give me a new diet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a diet and I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to eat only cheese, steaks and ice cream. When you
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  Speaker 1: you're going on a diet, you have to you have
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  Speaker 1: to starve yourself a little bit. You have to hold
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  Speaker 1: back on the things you like because it's a diet.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, I want the cheese, steaks and the
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  Speaker 1: ice cream. But you can't do that and being a
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  Speaker 1: diet But I want that. That's what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that, dummy. What's wrong with you? If
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to win, this is an outrageous take. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: else has this take. If you're trying to win, you
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  Speaker 1: don't trade the Rock of Gibraltar.
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  Speaker 2: Closer. Miller has an era. I believe it's under one.
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  Speaker 1: He's got twenty five saves of the Padres and he's
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  Speaker 1: under team control for a couple more seasons.
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  Speaker 2: If that floats your boat.
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  Speaker 1: So we tried to warn you our pals in San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: and you did not listen. Bad job by you. These
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  Speaker 1: are your new look podres. These are much like the
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  Speaker 1: old podres. When I was doing radio stuff down there.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Padres used to be. They got
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  Speaker 1: bought by a gentleman who is someone who made his
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  Speaker 1: fortune in private equity, and they're being run by a
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  Speaker 1: guy who this is what he knows. They are a
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  Speaker 1: private equity operation. They flip assets. They love liquidation sales,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how they like. And so it's just like
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  Speaker 1: the baseball version of bed Bath and Beyond didn't go
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  Speaker 1: so well for them either. So that you got the
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  Speaker 1: usual suspects, the Phillies, they Yankees, the Dodgers, who are
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  Speaker 1: all in the mix. There is no way, no way
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  Speaker 1: the Podreys are going to trade Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 2: To the La Dodgers. That is not happening.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot give the top relief pitcher in the sport
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  Speaker 1: to your supposed blood rifle.
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  Speaker 2: Not gonna happen. It's you just can't. You can't. That
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  Speaker 2: would be a civic betrayal of the baseball community in
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  Speaker 2: San Diego. I don't care what you get. You could
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  Speaker 2: get two Hall of Famers for Mason Miller, and you
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  Speaker 2: can't make that trade. That is a capital offense. That
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  Speaker 2: is a capital offense. You cannot do it. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: There's no coming back, might as well move the team
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  Speaker 1: to El Paso if the Podres are going to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and just flip with your Triple A team and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And you just don't trade Mason Miller in general, unless
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  Speaker 1: unless you're actually trying to get booed by the lab
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  Speaker 1: doodles that go to bark in the park at Petco.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point to Los Angeles we go.
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  Speaker 1: And I was told by listener Mike in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the not technically San Francisco, he's in the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area. Mike sent me a very passionate email.
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  Speaker 2: So if you don't talk about mister a frond valor
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  Speaker 2: you would talking about it if it was the giants
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  Speaker 2: you're about. Well, it's an interesting source.
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  Speaker 1: Not got a lot of traction yet, But federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: and the SEC, not the Southeastern Conference, the other SEC,
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  Speaker 1: the big one, are currently investigating insurance companies owned by
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers billionaire owner Mark Walter. What whow big headline,
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  Speaker 1: big headline all the internet, the business empire that he
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  Speaker 1: is running there, Mark Walter, the Dodgers owner, and the
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  Speaker 1: question is whether or not they inappropriately disclosed investments tied
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  Speaker 1: to companies under their umbrella. Now, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: business jargon involved in this story, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: be somewhat relatable when you do this job, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to get into too much of that. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation centers on Delaware Life Insurance I've heard of them,
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  Speaker 1: and something called clear Spring and Life Annuity. Never heard
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  Speaker 1: of them, both owned by the group that Mark Walter
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  Speaker 1: is the face of. And so the probe is financial
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  Speaker 1: in nature. It is they've been saying here. This not
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  Speaker 1: related to the many sports franchises. It's not just the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Walters group also bought the Lakers and Chelsea FC,
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  Speaker 1: so they got some big time properties there under the
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  Speaker 1: Guggenheim umbrella. So the question, You've got the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers owner Mark Walter and his business dealings being
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  Speaker 1: in investigated by the Feds. By the feds here, so
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of this? So the Feds, from
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  Speaker 1: what I read about it, and I was obviously interested
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  Speaker 1: in this, I was like, is this could this be
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  Speaker 1: the end of the Dodgers run?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 2: This guy ends up in some serious trouble. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Turnout the lass the parties over, That's all she wrote.
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  Speaker 2: So the FEDS looking into this.
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  Speaker 1: And they're climb over again.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's not what you think. Goggenheim.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they have three hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars in asset management that they're involved in as
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  Speaker 1: a mind blowing amount of money. The core issue here
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  Speaker 1: the regulators suspect that these companies were secretly funneling policyholder
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  Speaker 1: cash money, money money back into other pet projects. I
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  Speaker 1: believe the term I learned this when I was in
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  Speaker 1: school one of the few days I paid attention is
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  Speaker 1: robbing Peter to pay Paul. Some call it, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say Ponzi scheme, but it's it's that you're
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  Speaker 1: taking money that wasn't supposed to go to this asset
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  Speaker 1: and you're using it on that asset. And in this case,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's Peter robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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  Speaker 1: If Peter was an annuity holder and Paul was a
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  Speaker 1: billionaire's investment portfolio.
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  Speaker 2: Understand. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: So the FBA also in this investigation, they have seized
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  Speaker 1: at least one mobile phone.
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  Speaker 2: What's on the phone?
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  Speaker 1: Grand jury subpoenas have been issued the companies are now scrambling,
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  Speaker 1: and as you might imagine, they're initiating what they call
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  Speaker 1: in the business world remediation plans. That is corporate speak
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  Speaker 1: for what cores Light calls the silver bullet, that is
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  Speaker 1: the get out of jail free card. Well not, this
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  Speaker 1: is the part where businesses on Wall Street cut these
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  Speaker 1: giant cartoon sized checks and just make it go away
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  Speaker 1: because you don't have to go to jail. No one
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to jail.
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  Speaker 2: You just cut a big check and say, okay, we
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  Speaker 2: won't do that again. Don't do that again. We won't
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  Speaker 2: do that again. We're good to go.
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  Speaker 1: And while there is no direct evidence tying the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers to cooking the books with Mark Walter,
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  Speaker 1: this whatever, this is, this thing is that it's all interconnected,
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  Speaker 1: related there. So if the Feds find a systemic rot
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  Speaker 2: Then you start saying, okay, right, we need more money.
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  Speaker 1: We got to dig a little deeper, and then before
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really worried.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not these were like criminal charges. I'd be a
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• 23:01
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• 23:05
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• 23:33
  Speaker 1: gonna fix the world once every week we try to
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  Speaker 1: fix the world. It's pinky in the brain. It's it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: radio version though. We're going to fix everything and do
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  Speaker 1: that right now. Hashtag ask a weed Man.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Lorena is here FSR tech Queen I Bill got her
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's see it is.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: The Ben Mahler Show, and Femi says been the most
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: shocking part of your Mallard monologue was discovering that the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: owners of your beloved Dodgers also own the Lakers. Are
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we seeing a future where Big Ben supports the Lakers? No,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Dodger ownership stonewalled me from going to those games,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: so screw them. I like the Dodgers, but I don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: need to support the ownership. Well, you're kidding me, please
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: he blew me off. And if you think in this life,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Emi that I'm going to support that elitist Laker franchise,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you are completely wrong. No way, no chance is that
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: None.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Who's your bill? Wrights In says the Tigers suck. They
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: won't do anything but lose. So he said, well, right now,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: somebody that never loses, he wins every Do you have
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: any music to give me in the mood here?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Losers? Let's see here. I love the loser. I'm a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: fan of losers. Welcome in.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: A man who spent many a night on the mean
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: streets of Miami has had many great moments in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: history of the show. One of the great characters. Some
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: people think he's not real. I've never met him. He
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: might not be real. He could be a goblin from
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: some other part of the world. We say hello to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Weed main hibee every week.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: You are.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: If you showed up to work the way you show
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: up to this show, you would have a lot of money.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: You know, Musk has a trillion dollars.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, not anymore because the stock on SpaceX
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: went in the toilet, so he's below that year recorded.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Are you are you a court?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Are you recording this phone call.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not moving. I don't know who said.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: That, Lorena, did you? Definitely wasn't me. It wasn't me, but.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: A thousand billion dollars a trillion dollars? How crazy is that?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So who's recording this? Yeah, I don't want to be recorded.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I'm filing a formal complaint. I don't know that I
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: want to be.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you were if weed Man was another
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: species and non human, which one would he be? There
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: are supposedly four different types of goblin.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Movie I saw a movie today. The mother was an
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: alien and she came from another planet. That was great.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: That could be you.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Are you a gray, a Reptilian, a Nordic, or in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Salary's that you're not reptil You're not so weed Man
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to say he's not wouldn't that be something a Reptilian
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: would say that they're not reptilian.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Kim Basinger was in this movie. She's beautiful. I look
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: like Kim Basinger.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Do you have an opening thought here? Weed Man? It
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: should we go right to the questions?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: We're gonna make the world the dry place? All of
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: a sudden, Donald Trump, who I know from allinos, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: used to go to his casinos.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Did you ever win any money? Sometimes you did.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Sometimes we got remo there and we stayed in the casino.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: It was great, all right.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: But now now he's president in the Unite Sash and
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: he's bombing around. How crazy is this?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you know this. He's actually
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: been president twice. He won two different elections. How about that. I'mbelievable,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: all right, Late night drug tester writes in let's get
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to the questions. If an alien from space came to
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: live with you, would you offer them your sofa or
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: bed to sleep on?
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I have a bed right next to me. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: love the alien to come here to sleep.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: What if they What if they have body odor?
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: What would you do?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know. You have to see. Maybe it's graay.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Maybe the beautiful girl like chimed after them.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Well, how do you know they have girls and boys?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: They might just be some other blob species, could be blops,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Alright?
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: With me, Alf Alf much.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: More involved, and we are she shaking.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Goods here, moving on.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: It's ask a weed man hashtag ask a weed man.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: If you want to call up, try to get on.
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• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Alien O Piner writes, and he says, Ben ask
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: weed man, did you ever get in a dust up
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: with someone trying to work your side of the street?
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  Speaker 5: No?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: No, I never did, oh, because I actually have a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: great story. My buddy from Dallas, one of my friends
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I've known for a long time. He's an Elvis impersonator.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a gag, As a gag, I thought, well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: why not come out to La. I'll take you to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Boulevard and you can become an Elvis guy in Hollywood, right, So.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Well, he dressed up as Elvis. See I dropped him
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: off at Hollywood and Highland on the Hollywood Boulevard where
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: they do all the you know, the same thing they
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: have in New York with Elmo and all the different characters.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And so I.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Dropped my buddy off and he got chased by another
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Elvis because appellenty, I guess the guys all have their
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: corner of the street and there's no room for another Elvis.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So my buddy got chased by another Elvis. All right,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: let's see here, what do we have here? Bozo the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: District Attorney rights. In I Love Bozo, he says, if you.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: All right, come down.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: He says, if you own the last joint on earth,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: how much would someone have to pay you to buy
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it from you?
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  Speaker 5: No? No, I'm not showing that.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: All so great? I know you tell me that every week.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Freddie writes in he says, Hey, weed Man, I've been
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: getting sick back to back? What does weed Man take
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to not get sick? Do you have any magic remedy?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Weed Man? I go with garbage.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: Stay away from the lettus, stay away from the lattus.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Did you see this lettuce is making people ship? How
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: crazy is that?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: You might want to clear out your system though you
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: eat the right lettuce there you can go right to
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the bathroom and.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: To be honest, Yeah, well this is a rather odd question.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And he says, if you could switch lives weed Man
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: with with me, Ben Ben Mallard for one day, what
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: would you do first? If you were living in my body?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: What would you do?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: That's great? I love doing this show. How great would
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: that be? Where could I get a radio show like you?
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: I want to do radio.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I love that you love radio. We need more people,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: We need more people that love radio. That's what we need.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That's what we need, Firg Dog writes, and he says, hey,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: weed Man, how many pennies are in a trillion dollars?
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: What you don't have no no idea?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: What how many pennies do you think are in a
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: trillion dollars?
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: How funny is that? I don't even know what number
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: that would be? What's that for trillion?
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: What will be?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Do the math?
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  Speaker 1: So the math if you have a trillion dollars and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you had pennies, look at chewweed.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Man, your little fox. One hundred trillion pennies. Yeah, one
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: hundred trillion pennies. Yes, all right? Manuel in Guardina.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, Manuel, I love you? How are you?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Big fan? I gotta get Manuel on the mailbag thing.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Reach out to me. Manuel. We'll see if we.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Can connect there, remember Manuel?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah? All right?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: He says, has Billy Boy ever rocked a mullet or
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a mohawk?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: What about?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: What about a mohawk? Those were popular in the eighties.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: What about a mohawk?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: No, no, I have long hair. I like it. I'll
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: never get a mohawk. That's crazy.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're lucky with there. It's Billy Boy a fan
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: of goat cheese. Manuel and Guardina assa.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I don't like it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: All right, goat cheese is delicious? What is the we
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: so good? What is the sweet?
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I say it? Actually really I never tried cheese.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It sounds bad.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: What is the sweetest ride that Billy boy ever owned?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: From? Manuel and Guardina? Riviera?
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Okay, big old Rivia, big caboose on the back of
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: that riviera, cruising front cruising.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see, can't read that. All right, that's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: probably enough for today, weed Man. But thank you so much?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Did I miss it all? There's a couple of all right,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: we'll chat with you later in the week, Billy, thank
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you so much. Okay, thank you. There he goes, Well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: it might not be here for jokes, all right, There
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: he goes.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: The one and only weed Man. Where he goes only
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: he knows? Yes, just great? Well, what a way? What
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a way to go? Viral at a fan meet and.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Greet as former Pittsburg Steelers star Leveon Bell appeared in Canton, Ohio.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He was there for an autograph signing, a meet and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: greet with fans, and he ended up being booked into
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the Stark County jail in Ohio for not paying child support.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: There was a warrant out of Michigan and Bell got dnked,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: so he went viral. All these people there get autographs
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and yeah, TMS says Bell was ordered to pay twenty
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: five million in a default judgment last year. However, his
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: attorney said Bell the judgment was based on his NFL salary.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: He has not had an NFL salary for a couple
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of years anyway, So there you go. He had one
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: point made more than forty five million dollars in his
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: NFL career and now, yeah, not.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Things not going well? All right, It is the Ben
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Mahler Show.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Time now for the Insta Trivia, and we'll have mallardly
• 35:10
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• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Here's the Insta Trivia.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Despite owning one of the ten biggest contracts in baseball history,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Blank has a five to seventy OPS since May thirty first.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: That's the fourth worst in all of the big leagues
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: in that stretch. Again, despite having one of the ten
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: biggest contracts in baseball history, Blank has a five to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: seventy OPS since May thirty first, the fourth worst in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: all of baseball in that stretch. That's the Insta Tribua
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• 36:30
  Speaker 1: owning one of the ten biggest contracts in baseball history,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Blank has a five to seventy ops since May thirty first,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the fourth worst in all of the big leagues in
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: that particular stretch. That is the question with Mallard the
• 36:47
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• 36:52
  Speaker 1: know the answer? Rex Huddler, the hut Dog from al
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  Speaker 1: the Alien Opiner, whatever happened in I don't know? The
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• 37:03
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• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Murray from Femi the Uber each driver, we have Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Sam Sam, Pyo or some peo?
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  Speaker 6: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: What's your name? She's famous, I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She's thirty five today. I don't know who that is.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: That's from the Late Night Drug Tester. Let's see the
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  Speaker 2: What's say you, Lorraine jeff Puff marshmallow Man. No, the
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: correct answer would be none other than Vladimir.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Guerrero, who's the third largest contract in baseball history, second
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: largest by present day value.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Here we go, it's mall we go to.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: This is one Big Ben gets Grail all right.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Google loop Ben.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: There was a recent report that suggested that Justin Jefferson
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: could potentially want to move on from the team Minnesota
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson but want to move on
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: from the team and join the Las Vegas Raiders. Apparently
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: he'd be open to a trade there due to the
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: potential for a reunion with Clint Kubiak.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: You buying that, I'm buying that someone was trying to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: get engagement Forman's That's what I'm buying. If you're gonna
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: leave the Vikings, and I can't understand why Jefferson were
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: only viting, why would you go to the Raiders? Right,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: there's no reason to go to the Raiders. You can
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: live in Vegas in the offseason. You don't have to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: live in Vegas during the regular season. You gotta go
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: as far away from the Raiders as possible.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Next but the Packers have been promising the last few seasons,
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: but they haven't been able to get it done in
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: the playoffs. The safety what's Isaiah made? Our linebacker Isaiah
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: McDuffie said he thinks that the team has everything that
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: they need.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Ben, do you think the team is a championship roster
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: as constructed? What is it like? Everything they need? They're
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: gonna have eleven players on defense, eleven players on offense.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have eleven players on special teams. Now, the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Packers are in the middle. They're a middling team, and
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think they've done anything to change my perspective
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: that there will be a playoff team unlikely to make.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Much doors next The Houston Astros are three and a
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: half games back of the division. They're four and a
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: half games back with the wild cards, so kind of
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: in the playoff races. Not really, but Jordan Alvarez is
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: getting a lot of talk about al MVP Benner. You
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: are you buying that one?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: But he's got he's got great numbers. The Astros are
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: like much like these most of these teams in the America.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: They're a foll contender, So I'm not buying it. However,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge got hurt. There's really nobody that is clearly
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the MVP front runner.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: So it's wide open. How did we do you pass
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: the sea as a way
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Chicking game